WTO Public Forum 2014, Session on «BRICS and Africa: Partnership for development», October 1, 2014, Geneva

2014-09-25 / События

National Committee on BRICS Research would like to invite you to participate in an annual WTO Public Forum which will take place in Geneva on October 1-3, 2014. Within this forum National Committee on BRICS Research (Russia) together with the non-governmental organization «ECO-Accord» with assistance of The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation organize on October 1 session on «BRICS and Africa: Partnership for development».

The session proposed is related to trade, economic and social cooperation of the BRICS countries (Brazil, China, India, Russia, South Africa) with Africa aimed at fostering African development and promoting its full inclusion into the integration processes and allowing for African continent to fully benefit of the process of globalization.

This session is also to signal of the newly launched Civil BRICS process, which is bound to provide, among other things, information support and mobilize social awareness for the topics of the session among civil society of BRICS countries.

The Public Forum is the WTO’s largest annual outreach event, which provides a platform for participants to discuss the latest developments in world trade and to propose ways of enhancing the multilateral trading system. The event regularly attracts over 1,500 representatives from civil society, academia, business, the media, governments, parliamentarians and inter-governmental organizations.

Please confirm your participation at the session "BRICS and Africa: Partnership for development" within the WTO Public forum 2014 on the e-mail address: panova@nkibrics.ru, Victoria Panova – the senior adviser for strategic planning of National Committee on BRICS Research, Russia. 

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